A recent survey done by Populus for the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) suggests that there is quite a difference of opinion between those over 45 and under 45 [...]
Netflix disclosed that its UK tax position is “under examination” by HMRC, in its submission to regulators in America. The Times revealed that Netflix Services UK Ltd. only declared a profit of £1.12m last year. [...]
This is an interesting point put forward by the ACCA’s head of taxation, Mr Roy-Chowdhury. He doesn’t mean that the system is too easy to hack, but that its complexity confuses taxpayers and makes them [...]
We previously reported on the introduction of the Sugar Tax, or ‘Soft Drinks Industry Levy’ (SDIL), to give it its proper name. The main aim of the new tax is to be part of the [...]
We all know that Paypal is a huge global organisation. So why did they only paying £159,000 UK tax in the 2015-16 tax year? HMRC wanted to know the answer to this question and launched [...]
One of the many headlines from the recent Conservative Party Conference is Theresa May’s announcement that the freeze on fuel duty will continue. There had been recent speculation that a raise in fuel duty was [...]
Next week Edinburgh Councillors will vote on whether to take forward a proposal to introduce a ‘transient visitor levy’ (TVL) to the public consultation stage. Supporters of the ‘tourism tax’ predict that it would bring [...]
As Scotland has different income tax rates to the rest of the UK, military personnel on the same salary are paying a different amount of tax depending on where they live. For many of those [...]
HMRC brought a case against 60 ‘level 1 national group’ football referees, saying that their employment status had been wrongly classified. The referees had been paying National Insurance Contributions (NICs) as self employed contractors. The [...]
This is the question being answered by a report from the Commission on Economic Justice. Their report has 72 recommendations to achieve a fairer and stronger UK economy. Some of them involve changes to the [...]
